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...portion that she deleted is enclosed in brackets. Since Moore nurtured the vain hope that the radicals would read her story and readmit her to their ranks, she set down some weird and garbled thoughts about business and economics, and wrote of her adventures as an FBI spy and gradual conversion to radical politics. But the document, though self-serving and not al ways accurate, does provide glimpses of the mental processes that led six months later to her attempt to shoot the President. Excerpts...
...companies would lift the price of their products suddenly and sharply. But it still leaves Congress and the Administration at odds over how best to cut oil consumption, boost domestic production, and make the U.S. less dependent on foreign crude. To accomplish these goals, the Administration favors a gradual increase in prices to be achieved by phased decontrol. The Democratic majority in Congress, stressing the inflationary dangers of letting oil prices rise, prefers to put greater emphasis on import quotas and allocation programs...
...everywhere, Las Vegas, Gary Cooper. It seemed like paradise, but good old Richard Cory just went and shot himself. In spite of its inane aspects, the recent flood of nostalgia is a healthy rehabilitation of national symbols, a growing out of adolescent shame and embarrassment about "home" and a gradual realization that what is commonly thought of as uncultured, vulgar (i.e., new and unEuropean) is exactly what is unique about America...
Studying the Soviet Union has moved him rightward, except he says it a different way, with a question: "The main problem for my generation was, 'How do you have socialism without falling into tyranny?' For me, acquaintance with the documents of Soviet society was a gradual process of disabuse...
...Administration and the congressional Democrats fail to agree on a gradual phaseout of controls this time around, the nation could be in for a possibly painful test of just how sharp the shock of immediate decontrol could...